HP TouchPad to get Kindle app, MovieStore, and music store with webOS 3.02 update

The HP TouchPad only recently arrived on retail shelves, but consumers are starting to take notice. That has a lot to do with HP’s massive marketing campaign, with its giant banners outside big box stores like BestBuy, TV spots featuring Mr. Katy Perry, and a whopping 50GB of free cloud storage for life from the folks at Box.net.

There’s also excitement building for the upcoming 4G TouchPad that is due to launch on AT&T’s network in August. In addition to breaking free from the Wi-Fi only constraints of the original TouchPad, the 4G model will also feature an amped-up processor running at 1.5GHz. That will rectify some early concerns reviewers had about the TouchPad’s speed, but HP is well aware of certain software niggles that need to be addressed.

Those, of course, can be easily rectified via over-the-air updates, and there’s a big one coming to the TouchPad fairly soon. Though the release will only bump webOS to 3.02 on the tablets, it comes bearing three very big gifts: the Amazon Kindle app, HP MovieStore — which will allow you to leanback and rent your favorite flicks — as well as a music store of some sort.

It had been previously revealed that MovieStore would be powered by Roxio, which has a long-standing relationship with HP and plenty of experience with digital content delivery. The music store, however, remains a bit of a mystery. If HP follows the lead of Songbird — which we already know powers the HP Play desktop app — it could very well be 7Digital who is serving up the tunes.

The update is due by the end of July, so we won’t have to wait much longer to gets some eyes-on time with the news apps.

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HP set themselves up for some major backlash with the updated specs on the 4G version. A lot of early adopters are very vocal about their complaints and IMO rightfully so. Hopefully the software update will fix some of the issues early adopters are facing otherwise the TouchPad might be dead in the water.